[BNM] Plone

['Alex' Bridge]

S Sparkie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on any Plone books for a beginner
> to the technology? Do many people use it on this list, I've not seen
> it mentioned that often?
>
> Cheers
> S
>   

Hi S,

I use "The Definitive Guide to Plone" by Andy McKay a fair amount. 
There's an online edition of it available at 
http://docs.neuroinf.de/PloneBook . "Plone Live" also has some useful 
content, but it's not nearly as handy to have around as the former.

Other than that, the online documentation is what I tend to refer to the 
most. There's lots of tutorials to do various things on the Plone 
website and elsewhere, though some of them tend to throw you in at the 
deep end a little. These are the ones I use the most:

"Programming Plone - The MySite Tutorial" - 
http://www.neuroinf.de/LabTools/MySite
"RichDocument: Creating content types the Plone 2.1 way" - 
http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/richdocument/
"ArchGenXML - Getting started" - 
http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/archgenxml-getting-started

The last of these I find particularly useful - it shows you how to 
define your content types and workflows as a UML model, then run a 
script which will create them as an installable Plone product.

I'd also recommend familiarising yourself with some of the core concepts 
of Zope, as it's very difficult to do much with Plone without having to 
poke around under the hood.

Hope that helps,

-alx